Authentic Leadership in the Workplace: Bringing Your Authentic Self to Work

Programme Overview

Leadership is a journey, not a destination. It is a journey that requires continuously developing and refining a set of behaviours that allow you to influence, inspire, motivate, guide, coach, mentor, teach and work with others, including direct reports, colleagues and other subordinates. Authentic. Servant. Transformational Leadership: The Three Gold Standard Leadership Behaviours Required by a 21st Century Leader provides some of the most important tools you will need to navigate through your leadership journey.

The world needs more charismatic, inspirational, authentic, ethical, moral and servant leaders. How can one be a servant and a leader at the same time? How can organisational leaders bring their authentic selves to work? What is the optimal mix of transformational-transactional leadership behaviours for organisational leaders?

This highly interactive, comprehensive and robust programme provides organisational leaders and managers with intriguing insights into the world of authentic, servant and transformational leadership. Organisational leaders and managers who attend this programme will gain a new perspective on Authentic Leadership Development, Servant leadership Development and Transformational Leadership Development.

Participants will learn through our blended learning approach, including presentations, case studies, role plays, insights from an organisational leader and empirical and theoretical evidence on authentic leadership, servant leadership and transformational leadership and the impact of these three gold standard behaviours on work-related outcomes.

Programme Objectives

To provide a robust, comprehensive and insights into transformational leadership, authentic leadership and servant leadership and the influence these three gold standard leadership behaviours have on work-related outcomes. By the end of the programme each participant will be able to:

   Define transformational leadership, transactional leadership, laissez-faire, authentic leadership and servant leadership
   Explore the five dimensions of transformational leadership, the three dimensions of transactional leadership and laissez-faire, as well as the approaches to authentic leadership
   Examine the full-range leadership system
   Understanding the impact of transformational leadership, authentic leadership and servant leadership on work-related outcomes
   Appreciate the difference between transformational leadership and pseudo-transformational leadership
   Learn the falling dominoes effects of transformational leadership, authentic leadership and servant leadership
   Discuss transformational leadership, authentic leadership and servant leadership of men and women
   Compare the strengths and weaknesses of transformational leadership, authentic leadership and servant leadership
   Explore the 16 characteristics of the servant-leader, the eight characteristics of an authentic leader, the four dimensions of the authentic leader (theoretical approach) and the five essential dimensions of authentic leadership (practical approach)
   Appreciate the concept of authentic leadership journey and the profile of an authentic leader

WHY LEISHTON ACADEMY?

We are first a research company, and everything we do, be it training or consulting, is based on research we have conducted ourselves or those conducted by others. So, we do not just train on the basis of emotions. Our training programmes are based on strong theoretical and empirical findings. These findings allow us to provide our programmes’ participants up to date perspective on areas of interest.

In addition, we are locals and we understand the business environment. We have a good blend of both consulting and real-world day-to-day practical business experience in Nigeria. We have folded our sleeves before and we can fold it for you. Indeed, we are not just trainers and facilitators, we have a good understanding of how things are done in practice in Nigeria. We pride ourselves to be subject matter experts (SMEs) in the areas we train on. If we cannot provide contemporary insights and in-depth knowledge on a particular subject area, then we would say it from the outset.

Furthermore, we have developed our competencies in a lot of areas and we can be a one-stop shop for your organisation in terms of consulting, training and research (qualitative or quantitative) in the areas of leadership, governance, strategy, change management, risk management, compliance, AML/CFT (for financial institution), ethics, team functionality, emotional intelligence, legendary customer service, internal control and standard operating procedures (SOPs) development. We also go out of our way to adopt the best model for each training programme we offer and we are even ready to go “Down Under” (Australia) if that is where we will find the best model. Aut Optimum Aut Nihil; this Latin maxim is not just a philosophy to us, we live it.

Finally, we have few partner firms in South Africa that we can occasionally collaborate with in areas where we need additional capacity.

 

Why Attend this Programme?

This programme gives both existing and new organisational leaders the opportunity to learn the three gold standard leadership behaviours required by the 21st century leader. You will learn how to apply the right mix of transformational-transactional leadership in leading your subordinates. You will be equipped with the right skills to live an authentic life at work and be a true servant leader.

With this authentic leadership development programme, you will benefit from:

   Condensed and highly interactive, 3-day Authentic. Servant. Transformational leadership training
   Proven transformational, servant and authentic leadership strategies to equip the 21st century leader
   Real-world examples and suggestions for developing fit-for-purpose servant leadership, authentic leadership and transformational leadership
   Business-proven approaches to developing servant leadership, authentic leadership and transformational leadership behaviours
   Out-of-the-office focus on the Authentic. Servant. Transformational Leadership Development – away from distractions, phone calls, meetings and other interruptions


Lagos, Nigeria 
13 – 14 December, 2018


Fee (exclusive of tax)
₦132,999.50

(US$1,858.06 for foreign participants)